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Samuel Caldwell, John Lardner, Alexander Nesbitt, John Boy Le, J As A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE SOCIETY oi,· THE FRIENDLY SONS OF ST. PATRICK; WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF SOME OF THE MEMBERS,. AND EXTRACTS FROM THE MINUTES. "A Society distinguished for the firm adherence of i.ts members to the glorious cause in which we are embarkcd."-ExtTactfrom Gen. 1Vasltington's Letter to tlte President of the Society.-Post, p. 47. l)}J)ilabelpbia: PREPARED AND PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE HIBERNIAN SOCIETY,. 1844. Enteteb according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by SAMUEL HOOD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. WM. S. You1rn, Printer. FAC SIMILE OF THE CG CD) J1 IO) ffl JE J]) A JL , STRUCK POR AND WORN BY ,.. , ~ ~ .... - - ·""". :/1'- ·.:.:,_. -· ·~ _:. :.~·:. ~; ,·· -, ;;,·•..,!~.... ,p .. TlllE l\llJE.MBE RS OF " .· , ' {/4 , ;--- ( I •. /It, •. 1'1'/:lf7 1il · A;1;1!/17. ,i,;1.1 f S! PATRICK:' 1771. CONTENTS. Report and Dedication, 5 Letter from Francis Hopkinson, Esq., - 6 Reply, - • 7 Proceedings of Hibernian Society, June 17, 1843, 7 Introductory, 9 SECTION I. Of the general character of the emigrants, who came from Ireland to Pennsylvania before the Revolution, and that of the members of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, • - 11 SECTION II. Of the objects and rules of the Society, 21 SECTION III. Brief account of the Society and the ori- ginal members, - - 25 SECTION IV. Sketches of the honorary members, - 52 SECTION V. Sketches of other members, - 59 SECTION VI. The connexion of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, with the Hibernian Society, and the origin of the latter, - - 85 Rules of the Society, - - - 91 Extracts from the Minutes, - 94 Alphabetical list of members, and time of election, - 108 MEMBERS OF "THE HIBERNIAN SOCIETY FOR. TBE RELIEF OF EMIGRANTS FROM IRELAND." THE Committee appointed at the meeting of th€ 17th of June, 1843, "to prepare and publish extracts from the rules, minutes, &c., of "The Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick,'' with an account "of the Society and its l\tiembers/' beg to present to you the result of their labours. They also ask leave to dedicate the same to " The Hibernian, Society,'' the immediate successor and lineal descendant of the glorious Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. Though they feei how imperfectly they have pe~ f ormetl their agreeable task, they can assure you they have availed then1sel ves of every means within their power, to render the account of the Society and its Members as complete as possible. They cannot omit to acknowledge their great obligations to the g~ntlemen who have so kindly aided them in their researches, particularly te Dr. James Mease, g ( 6 ) ,vho furnished the1n with much valuable information relative to the personal history of the members. Very respectfully, SAMUEL HooD, GEORGE CAMPBELL, JOSEPH JONES. Philadelphia, March 17th, 1844. Philadelphia, l\iay 9th, 1843. DEAR S1R,- Among a number of old papers handed to me by the late Mr. David Caldwell, I find a minute book of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, commencing in September, 1771, and continued till March, 1796. It contains the rules of the Society, \Vith the auto­ graphs of many worthy and distinguished citizens whose memory is at this day most dearly cherished by the Sons of Ireland, and among them, that of General Washington, who was, on the 18th December, 1781, unaninwusly adopted a member of the Society. It occurred to me that this book would be accep­ table to the Hibernian Society, many of whose mem­ bers are found on the roll of the old society. I have consulted l\'.lrs. Caldwell, who cheerfully consents to this disposition of it. Be good enough to communicate this note to your associates of the Hibernian Society, and say that the book which is at my office, will be delivered to such persons as they may authorize to receive it. Very truly yours, FRANCIS BOfKINSON.1 i:3.AMUEL HOOD, EsQ. ( 7 ) Walnut and Sixth Street, May 9th, 1843. FRANCIS HOPKINSON, EsQ.. DEAR S1&,- I have received your kind favour of this morning, and have seen Mr. Tagert, the President of the Hi.. bernian Society, l\'Ir. Jones, the Treasurer, and several of the members on the subject of your letter. They all concur \vith me in saying that the Hiber• nian Society ·will consider the offer made by you on behalf of Mrs. David Caldwell, to present to them the minute book of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, as especially acceptable. They authorize me to receive it from you on behalf of the Society. I will avail myself of their next meeting, which will be on the 17th of June, to present to the Society this valuable and interesting donation, when I doubt not the So.. ciety will take occasion to tender their acknowledg.. ments in a suitable manner, both to you and to Mrs. Caldwell. I remain, Dear Sir, very truly, Your friend and humble Servant, SAMUEL HOOD. "Ata meeting of the Hibernian Society on the 17th of June, 1843, Mr. Hood haying read the foregoing correspondence between 1v1r. Hopkinson and him­ self, and presented the minutes, &c., of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, it \Vas resolved that the thanks of the Hibernian Society be tendered to Mrs.David Caldwell and Francis Hopkinson, Esq., for the valuable gift, and the courteous manner in ,vhich it was presented. { s ) "The Book was ordered to be elegantly bound and carefully preserved in the archives of the Society, and a committee, consisting of Messrs. Samuel Hood, George Campbell, and Joseph Jones, was appointed to prepare and publish an account of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and its members, with the Rules and Regulations, and such extracts as they might select f.rom its l\tiinutes." ( 9 ) INTRODUCTORY. THE Hibernian Society having been presented with the Rules and minutes of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, ordered the most interesting parts to be published. Desirous also of perpetuating, as far as practicable, the 1nemory of the many excel­ lent men and ardent patriots who belonged to it, a committee was appointed to collect reminiscences of the Society and its members, and publish them., ·with the extracts from the Minutes. They were the more especially induced to this, because the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick was the parent from which their own Society sprang, and it appeared to be a duty required of them to lose no time in prose• cuting their scheme, since the last of its members had already descended to the grave, and those who could give any authentic account of them must in the course of nature soon follow. It was hoped, too, that a brief history of this So­ ciety, and such sketches of its members as could be gathered even at this late day, might tend to show, in son1e degree, what part Irishmen enacted in the great drama of the Revolution.-N ot that their ser­ vices are forgotten or unacknowledged, but because there seemed to be little of a permanent character among the annals of the revolution, doing full justice to their merits, or showing, what is undeniable, that they were behind no other men in ardour, and e.ffi. ciency in the cause of liberty, or in courage, devotion, 2* ( 10 J and sacrifices for their adopted country, " in the times that tried men's souls.' It is not imagined that the brief and rapid sketcheft which this design necessarily contemplates, can supply all that is wanting in this respect. It is hoped, ho\v­ ever, that these hasty memoranda snatched from the fast rising tide of oblivion, may contribute something to fill up this hiatus in the ren1iniscences of the Ame­ rican Revolution. The time during which the Society of the Friendly Sons·of St. Patrick existed, from 1771 to 1798,-the ,nen of whom it was composed, some of the most ac-­ tive and influential patriots of the country, including John Dickinson, Robert Morris, Thomas Fitzsimons, Generals Washington, Wayne, Irvine, Butler, Thomp­ son, Hand, Cad,valader, Moy Ian, Knox, and Stewart, Commodore Barry, and numerous others, distin-­ guished in the· Army, Navy, Cabinet and. Congress,­ the place in which the Society was formed and met, Philadelphia, then the focus of every political and di­ plomatic movement, the Capitol of the nation, where lndependenee was declared, n~ti€>nal conventions and -i> Congress met, the seat of the confederated Federa-1 and State Governments,. the residence of the Fo­ reign Ambassadors and ministers, and occasionally the theatre of war-all these circumstances of time-, persons and place combine to give additional interest, if not importance to its memoirs. The devotion of its members to. the eause of liberty rests not on the high testimonials of Washington alone, but on the history of the society itself, and of its individual n1embers; to give an outlioo of which is the principal object of the following page~ A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE SOCIETY OF THE FRIENDLY SONS ST.PATRICK, &c. SECTION L OF THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE EMIGRANTS WHO C.. UIB FROM IRELAND TO PENNSYLVANIA BEFORE THE REVO.LUTION 7 AND THAT OF THE MEMBERS OF THE FRIENDLY SONS OF ST. PATRICK. In speaking of the early history of the province of Pennsylvania historians dwell much on the settle­ ments of the Swedes under the direction of Gustavus Adolphus, Christina, and the Chancellor Oxensteirn, on the pretensions and inroads of the Dutch-but especially on the paran1ount influence exercised in the _government by the Society of Friends after Wil­ liam Penn became proprietor.
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